Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

This book explores the place of the flesh in the linguistically-inflected categories of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, drawing explicit attention to the organic as an inherent part of the linguistic categories that appear in the writings of Freud and Lacan.

Autorentext

Shirley Zisser practises Lacanian psychoanalysis in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP) and an associate professor of English at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses on the interrelations between poetics, rhetorical and literary theory and psychoanalysis. Her publications include The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric (2001), Critical Essays on Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint*'*: Suffering Ecstasy (2005, ed.), Lacanian Interpretations of Shakespeare (2009, ed.) and Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2018, with Efrat Biberman).

Inhalt

Introduction: 'The smile is a cut' 1. Saussurean linguistics and its dis-contents 2. 'Written in the sand of the flesh': On modes of writing in the psychic apparatus 3. Speaking the written Epilogue: Chiselled from the real - The feminine signifier